{"id":797493,"date":"2011-10-05T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/good-time-for-cheap-flights-says-wall-street-journal\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:33:30","slug":"good-time-for-cheap-flights-says-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/good-time-for-cheap-flights-says-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Time for Cheap Flights Says Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>A Good Time to Buy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting a decline of 16 percent in airfares since 1995 making it a good time to snatch up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\">cheap flights<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A round-trip ticket in 1995 would have cost a traveler $410.30, now it goes for about $337.97, and that includes nominal bag and reservation fees.<\/p>\n<p>If you take those fees away, airline tickets are even lower compared to 1995, down 21 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Darin Lee, who works for Compass Lexecon, a consulting firm, as an aviation economist said \u201cthere is no significant change in the secular, long-term cycle of prices \u2013 which is (why) they are going down.\u00a0 If airlines had pricing power, they wouldn\u2019t be rushing to buy more fuel-efficient plans and trying to eke out every little efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/10\/fares-keep-dropping\/550606\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Good Time to Buy &nbsp; The Wall Street Journal is reporting a decline of 16 percent in airfares since 1995 making it a good time to snatch up cheap flights. A round-trip ticket in 1995 would have cost a traveler $410.30, now it goes for about $337.97, and that includes nominal bag and reservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201602,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797493\/revisions\/97201602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}